Otho Williams

Otho Williams (1 March 1749-15 July 1794) was a Brigadier-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Otho Holland Williams was born on 1 March 1749 near Williamsport, Prince George's County, Maryland, and he entered a commercial life after the death of his father when he was only thirteen. In 1775, he joined a rifle regiment of the Continental Army as a commissioned officer and saw his first combat at the Battle of Fort Washington in the fall of 1776, in which he was captured by the British Army. Williams would be released in 1778 and became the colonel of the 6th Maryland Regiment, a regiment that he led in the South at the Battle of Camden, Battle of Guilford Court House, and the Battle of Eutaw Springs. In 1782, the Continental Congress promoted him to Brigadier-General, and he served as the commissioner of the Port of Baltimore and an associate justice for Baltimore County after the war's end. Williams declined a promotion to Brigadier-General in 1792, and he died two years later in Woodstock, Virginia.